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Angels associated with Israel in the Dead Sea Scrolls : angelology and sectarian identity at Qumran
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ISBN: 9783161553035 3161553039 9783161553042 Year: 2019 Volume: 509 Publisher: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck

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A well-known characteristic of the sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls are their assertions that membership in the Qumran movement included present and eschatological fellowship with the angels, but scholars disagree as to the precise meaning of these claims. To gain a better understanding of angelic fellowship at Qumran, Matthew L. Walsh utilizes the early Jewish concept that certain angels were closely associated with Israel. Moreover, these angels, which included guardians and priests, were envisioned within apocalyptic worldviews that assumed that realities on earth corresponded to those of the heavenly realm. A comparison of non-sectarian texts with sectarian compositions reveals that the Qumran movement's lofty assertions of communion with the guardians and priests of heavenly Israel would have made a significant contribution to their identity as the true Israel.


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Good Governor.
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ISBN: 1476628882 9781476628882 1476669473 9781476669472 Year: 2017 Publisher: Jefferson, UNITED STATES McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers

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"After Americans withdrew from the Vietnam War, Indochinese allies faced imprisonment, torture and death under communist regimes. The Tai Dam, an ethnic group from northern Vietnam, campaigned for sanctuary in 1975. Governor Robert D. Ray of Iowa agreed to help. Interviews with refugees and public officials inform this comprehensive study of Iowa's resettlement program"--


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Managing military personnel costs : Operation Retrenchment Specter, a workforce futures game
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Year: 2023 Publisher: RAND Corporation

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To ensure a ready workforce without undercutting modernization and sustainment efforts, the U.S. Air Force must explore options to limit military personnel (MILPERS) costs while considering the nonmonetary trade-offs and risks that these options entail. RAND Project AIR FORCE designed and conducted a workforce futures policy game — Operation Retrenchment Specter — that simulates the monetary and nonmonetary effects of workforce and personnel policies in real time. In the game, players proposed options that were projected to yield annual savings ranging from


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Assessing the Implications of Policy Options for the Military Personnel Budget: An Analytic Framework for Evaluating Costs and Trade-Offs
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Year: 2023 Publisher: RAND Corporation

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Since 2000, spending on military personnel (MILPERS) has grown at an average annual rate of 3.3 percent to approximately

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Independent Review and Assessment of the Air Force Ready Aircrew Program: A Description of the Model Used for Sensitivity Analysis
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. RAND Corporation

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The Ready Aircrew Program (RAP) sets continuation training requirements for pilots of combat aircraft. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 directed the Secretary of the Air Force to arrange for an independent review of the RAP and its effectiveness in managing aircrew training requirements. The Air Force turned to RAND Project AIR FORCE to conduct the review and to make recommendations for improvements. As part of the analysis, researchers created a computational model to examine whether flying units can feasibly meet the continuation training requirements set by RAP and other training requirements when various constraints, such as the length and frequency of temporary duty assignments or deployment schedules, are taken into account. This report outlines the model, its specifications, and how it was used in the assessment of the RAP.

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In the darkest of days : human sacrifice and value in Southern Scandinavian Prehistory
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ISBN: 9781789258592 1789258596 Year: 2024 Publisher: Oxford : Oxbow books,

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This book collects recent works on the subjects of sacrificial offerings, ritualised violence and the relative values thereof in the contexts of Scandinavian prehistory from the Neolithic to the Viking era. The volume builds on a workshop hosted at the National Museum of Denmark in 2018 which inaugurated the beginning of the research project 'Human Sacrifice and Value: The limits of sacred violence' and was supported by the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo. The volume brings together research and perspectives that attempt to go beyond the who, what and where of most archaeological and anthropological investigations of sacrificial violence to address both the underlying and explicit forms of value associated with such events.The volume re-opens investigations into notions of value relating to diverse evidence and suggested evidence for human sacrifice and related ritualised violence. It covers a broad spectrum of issues relating to novel interpretations of the existing archaeological materials, but with a focus on the study of value and value dynamics in these diverse ritual contexts, engaging in questions of identity, cosmology, economics and social relations. Cases span from the Scandinavian Late Neolithic and Nordic Bronze Age, through to the well-known wetland deposits and bog bodies of the Iron Age, to Viking era executions, 'deviant' burials and contemporaneous double/multiple graves, exploring the implications for the transformation of sacrificial practices across Scandinavian prehistory.Each contribution attempts to untangle the myriad forms of value at play in different incarnations of human offerings, and provide insights into how those values were expressed, e.g., in the selection and treatment of victims in relation to their status, personhood, identity and life-history.


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Exploring the use of computational models to personalize training
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Year: 2023 Publisher: RAND Corporation

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The purpose of training and education in the United States Department of the Air Force (DAF) is to develop and sustain mission-critical knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) among airmen, guardians, and civilians. The DAF must deliver effective training and education to fully use its human capital, provide warfighting assets to combatant commanders, and maintain asymmetric advantage over competitors. Yet training and education is costly. A recent budget request included more than


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Human sacrifice and value : revisiting the limits of sacred violence from an archaeological and anthropological perspective
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ISBN: 9781032134864 9781032150918 Year: 2024 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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"This volume explores concepts of human sacrifice, focusing on its value - or multiplicity of values - in relative cultural and temporal terms, whether sacrifice is expressed in actual killings, in ideas revolving around ritualized, sanctioned, or sanctified violence or loss, or in transformed and (often sublimated) undertakings"--


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Human sacrifice and value : revisiting the limits of sacred violence from an anthropological and archaeological perspective
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ISBN: 1003242472 1003242472 1000981835 Year: 2024 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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"This volume explores concepts of human sacrifice, focusing on its value - or multiplicity of values - in relative cultural and temporal terms, whether sacrifice is expressed in actual killings, in ideas revolving around ritualized, sanctioned, or sanctified violence or loss, or in transformed and (often sublimated) undertakings"--


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Is Today's U.S. Air Force Fit? It Depends on How Fitness Is Measured
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Year: 2022 Publisher: RAND Corporation

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Physical fitness is an important element of military readiness and is the responsibility of every airman. U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. Air Force (USAF) policies reflect this view. DoD's position is firmly grounded and supported by decades of research that has established clear linkages between physical fitness and a wide variety of health outcomes, such as hypertension and heart disease. This report focuses on measures used to monitor the general fitness of airmen, which guide personnel actions and reports on the health of the force. To provide a more comprehensive evaluation of USAF fitness and health, the authors compare results from the 2018 DoD Health Related Behaviors Survey with data collected as part of regular USAF fitness assessments from fiscal year (FY) 2005 through FY 2018. The authors present evidence to suggest that body mass index (BMI), although commonly used as a sole indicator of overweight or obesity status in personnel and media reports, can be misleading when used alone. Specifically, BMI may misclassify service members as overweight or obese when they are not; BMI may be less accurate than other easily obtained measures, such as abdominal circumference (AC) or waist-to-height ratio (WHtR); other fitness metrics suggest that USAF fitness has improved over time; and other USAF measures that assess cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness should also be used in conjunction with body composition measures to provide a more accurate assessment of health risk across subgroups (e.g., gender, race).

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